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Wheaton College Joins the Cancel Culture

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Wheaton College, a prominent evangelical school in Wheaton, Illinois attended by Billy Graham in the 1940s, made headlines is making headlines after they removed a plaque in the school’s chapel that commemorated some of their martyred alumni.

The plaque, which honored slain missionaries Jim Elliot and Ed McCully from the class of 1949, was recently removed and awaits the review of a bureaucratic task force appointed by the school’s Senior Administrative Cabinet.

According to a statement from Wheaton College president Philip Ryken, the plaque’s use of the word “savage” is apparently an inappropriate description of the Auca Indian tribe in Ecuador, whose warriors speared the unarmed Elliot and his fellow missionaries to death before tossing their mutilated bodies into a river.

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